Founders & CEOs: Not Found in the Record

SEARCHES RUN NOVEMBER 2026 · THE CDP WHOLE

The checklist's remaining pair-classes were run as tests against this ground, and both come back negative at CDP size; the searches are shown so the negative can be re-run. Inventor-founder. Searched: the banked Businesses and People fragments whole (no patent, inventor, or patent-holding founder appears in either); web search for a patent-holding founder seated in Granger, Indiana (queries on Granger + inventor/patent/founder returned no Granger-CDP firm — the results were the Patrons of Husbandry's Granger movement, unrelated Indiana inventors, and firms of other places); the firms-of-the-ground roll itself re-read for an inventor (Drive & Shine states it designs and manufactures its own wash equipment, in its own recruiting copy, but names no inventor and holds no patent in the record reached; Bare Hands, Anchor and Big C's millwork shop are makers, not patent founders). The floor instance's inventor-founder — J. D. Birdsell of the clover-huller — is a South Bend seat, and the paired small-goods founders and lathe twins of the floor instance are likewise South Bend houses; no counterpart seated inside the CDP was found. The settling source that could overturn the negative is a USPTO assignee/inventor residence search on Granger, Indiana addresses, which requires the Patent Center / Patent Public Search interface and is registered here as the named instrument. Branch-plant keeper chief. Searched the same record for an outside firm's local keeper carried as a chief: Granger's branches are retail and banking branches, and the only keeper the record names at any strength is a store director — Bryan Stratton, director of the Heritage Square Martin's, named presenting the community check at the June 2026 refresh (The Shelby Report, carried in the banked fragment). Below him the record names yard-level keepers only in trade notes (e.g., Big C's location general managers in LBM Journal personnel items — keepers of Granger-seated yards of a Granger-headquartered firm, not of a branch plant). No manufacturing branch plant has ever been seated in the CDP — the banked fragment's tested negative on plants of scale stands — and therefore no branch-plant keeper chief exists to carry. Both negatives print at the strength of the searches shown.

Sources: banked Businesses and People fragments (full-text re-read, November 2026); The Shelby Report, June 23, 2026; LBM Journal personnel record, 2025–2026; web searches as described in the text.